Alnwick House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Alnwick County House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1807

Date closed   [1870]

Location   Green Batt   Alnwick

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northumberland

Critical Remarks

In 1870, the prison inspector found the House of Correction had become a remand centre.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Alnwick County House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1807

Date closed   [1870]

Location   Green Batt   Alnwick

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   55.411693  Long.   -1.7077761

County   Northumberland

Critical Remarks

In 1870, the prison inspector found the House of Correction had become a remand centre.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   63

Daily Greatest number   -   21

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   91

Daily Census   -   10

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   164

Daily Census   -   16

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   122

Daily Census   -   7

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   43

Daily Census   -   2

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   91

Daily Census   -   3

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   191

Daily Daily average   -   1

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   73

Daily Daily average   -   1

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   45

Daily Daily average   -   0

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   63

Daily Greatest number   -   6

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   49

Daily Daily average   -   1

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.9
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.36
  • Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.86; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.108; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.118; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.34
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.184; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.204; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.194; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.181; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.212; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.190; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.188; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.181; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.181; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.195; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.181; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.177; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.117; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.117; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.122; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.118; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.126; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.130; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.132; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.133; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.135; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.163; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.157; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.171; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.173
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.44
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.299), p.117; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.721), p.28; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.413), p.25; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.369), p.34; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.441), p.87; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.399), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XX.461), p.80; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.46; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.793), p.74; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.837), p.78; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.361), p.81; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854-55, XXVI.123), p.57; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857 Session 1, VII.505), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.213), p.49; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.89), p.42; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.1), p.69; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.1), p.74; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.529), p.110

Additional Primary Sources

  • William Parson & William White, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, Volume 1 (Leeds, 1827), p. 389, W. Davison, A Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick (1822), pp. 185-6

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/WAMDocuments/5D755A77-5F0D-4967-8475-759341DA79A1_1_0.pdf?nccredirect=1

Management

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/S/O

Collection: Northumberland Quarter Sessions

Description: Order books. Highly likely to contain material on the administration of the county prisons

Dates: 1680-1971


Daily Business

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: ZMD 167/24/138

Collection: None

Description: Volume of printer's proofs and miscellaneous papers, including Alnwick House of Correction, Keeper and Police Officer's entry and report book

Dates: 1846


Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: NRO 00304/53

Collection: None

Description: Dietary book of Alnwick House of Correction

Dates: 1851-1853


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/S/O/16, p 85

Collection: Northumberland Quarter Sessions

Description: Order books, building for a House of Correction at Alnwick to be purchased

Dates: 1806